The military wing of the Paleostinian Islamic Jihad
...created after many members of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood decided the organization was becoming too moderate. Operations were conducted out of Egypt until 1981 when the group was exiled after the assassination of President Anwar Sadat. They worked out of Gaza until they were exiled to Lebanon in 1987, where they clove tightly to Hezbollah. In 1989 they moved to Damascus, where they remain a subsidiary of Hezbollah...
, called the Al-Quds Brigade, grabbed credit for firing dozens of missiles on what it called "Israeli settlements."
In response, Israel launched
In all, the Israeli military targeted "29 terror sites" in Gazoo, the military said on its Twitter page.
"Direct hits were confirmed," the military tweeted.
Islamic Jihad and Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, which is the Paleostinian movement running Gazoo, evacuated their military and civilian institutions on expectation of Israeli reprisals, the sources said.
In the wake of the attack, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told Israeli army radio that "the position of my party Israel Beitanyu is that we support the full occupation of the whole of Gazoo in any possible future action."
Liberman opposed a response short of full occupation. "I am against a limited operation," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was later asked for his reaction to Liberman's comments at a joint news conference with Britannia's Prime Minister
David Cameron... has stated that he is
certainly a big Thatcher fan, but I don't know whether that makes me a Thatcherite,which means he's not. Since he is
not deeply ideologicalhe lacks core principles and is easily led. He has been described as
certainly not a Pitt, Elder or Younger,but he does wear a nice suit so maybe he's Beau Brummel ...
Wednesday evening in Jerusalem.
"If it is not quiet in southern Israel, it will be very noisy in Gazoo," Netanyahu said in Hebrew.
Paleostinian Authority President the ineffectual Mahmoud Abbas
... a graduate of the prestigious unaccredited Patrice Lumumba University in Moscow with a doctorate in Holocaust Denial...
has called upon Israel to stop the "military escalation on the besieged Gazoo Strip, considering that this escalation will put the isolated residents in the danger of the war and destruction," presidential front man Nabil Abu Rudeineh said through the official Wafa news agency.
"The Gazoo Strip is constantly being targeted by Israeli
Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon ordered a halt to the shipment of goods to Gazoo through a crossing on the Gazoo-Israel-Egypt border until security assessments are made, the military said in statement.
However,
some people are alive only because it's illegal to kill them...
another crossing will be open for humanitarian movements, the military said.
U.N. Secretary-General
the ephemeral Ban Ki-moon... of whom it can be said to his credit that he is not Kofi Annan...
condemned the multiple rocket attacks from Gazoo on Israel and urged maximum restraint by all parties to prevent an escalation of violence and destabilization to the region, a front man said.
Israeli Apache helicopters flew over Gazoo City on Wednesday after several rockets were reportedly fired from the Paleostinian territory at the Israeli town of Sderot, officials said.
The Al-Quds Brigade grabbed credit on its website for firing a total of 34 rockets and 14 mortar rounds at "Zionist targets."